Hang Me Up To Dry · Cold War Kids

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 35 and 41, and 4 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
HANG ME UP TO DRY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 53, 61 and 81.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 5 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-21.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART F
PART K
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesCFKGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hang Me Up To Dry?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Hang Me Up To Dry hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hang Me Up To Dry?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 53, 61 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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